From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qg0-f48.google.com (mail-qg0-f48.google.com [209.85.192.48]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E2188299B for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:09:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by qgea108 with SMTP id a108so18721621qge.8 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-qg0-x22e.google.com (mail-qg0-x22e.google.com. [2607:f8b0:400d:c04::22e]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g81si6741128qge.102.2015.03.12.08.09.39 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:09:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by qgdq107 with SMTP id q107so18722602qgd.6 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 08:09:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 11:09:37 -0400 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: committed memory, mmaps and shms Message-ID: <20150312150937.GA13256@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20150311181044.GC14481@diablo.grulicueva.local> <20150312124053.GA30035@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150312124053.GA30035@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Marcos Dione Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, marcos-david.dione@amadeus.com, linux-mm@kvack.org On Thu 12-03-15 08:40:53, Michal Hocko wrote: [...] > I think it would make more sense to add something like easily > reclaimable chache to the output of free (pagecache-shmem-dirty > basically). That would give an admin a better view on immediatelly > re-usable memory. Ohh, I have just learned that /proc/meminfo already provides such an information. It's MemAvailable and should give you an idea about how much memory is re-usable. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org